Many people who like to travel are taking photos of the locations they visit. The photos are then usually added to photo albums along with stuff that was bought or taken on the trip (maps, bills, tickets). The software 93 Photo Street offers another possibility as it can be used to create photo maps on [...]

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Streaming music over a computer network or Internet was a complicated process in the beginning days of the Internet. Today all it takes to stream music is the installation of one program and a web browser to access the music. That’s highly comfortable and doable even for inexperienced users who shy away from all things [...]

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There are a few things that laptop owners can do to prevent laptop theft. Probably the most important one is to keep an eye on the laptop all the time. Sometimes however that is not enough and the laptop gets stolen or lost. There is little chance of getting the laptop back once it has [...]

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The network discovery software Fing has been born out of the ashes of the much acclaimed Look@Lan network monitoring and discovery software. The project is still in an early stage and comes with a command line version for the Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh operating system. This might turn away users who do not [...]

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Apple iTunes is one of the most popular music managers and players. While it can be used to play music locally it does not offer any means to play music over the Internet which might be interesting for users who work on different computer systems, e.g. a home computer and one at the office. Pulptunes [...]

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Jajuk is a very comprehensive and feature rich Open Source music management software written in Java. The software program is therefor available not only for the Microsoft Windows operating system but also Linux and Apple Macintosh computer systems. A first directory containing music files has to be selected after the program installation. Jajuk will automatically [...]

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If you bought yourself a shiny new computer monitor you might want to ensure that the monitor is calibrated correctly. This is also important for computer monitors that are already in use to ensure that they display the colors and picture correctly on the screen. There are basically two different parts of monitor calibration. The [...]

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Open Office 3.1 final has been released today. The Open Source alternative to Microsoft Office can be downloaded from download portals like Betanews but not directly from the Open Office homepage as it has not been updated yet to reflect the release of the new version. The new version of Open Office is packed with [...]

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Mendeley is a free academic software to manage and share research papers. It is available for multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh. The academic software runs on the computer desktop offering the user to add research papers to it. These papers can be added from the local computer system, network and [...]

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